Those towns and villages will be rebuilt after the war. This is not excuse for what Apple did, it is justification for ethnic cleansing and occupation. Same as with Gaza City. It existed for 3500 years, it will be rebuilt and it will outlive the US/Israel for sure.
replyHow is removing a city from a map a some sort of sign that apple did it for malicious reasons?
replyGiven the context, how it is not? These are not some random place on the map that have disappeared.
replyI'm sure Apple doesn't see it as malicious, and that's precisely the issue. Apple's political grandstanding has forced them into awkward and contradictory positions.
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replyWhat is the signal? Not snark, I’m not well informed and I need it spelled out.
replyThe bulk of Israelis want to annex this territory and use it as an empty buffer zone, exterminating everyone who refuses to leave.
replyThis genocide of course involves deleting those villages.
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replyYeah, maybe they have some kind of computer vision algorithm that automatically recognizes that the villages are now only rubble in satellite pictures and auomatically update the map /s
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reply> the map should not navigate there, my life would be in danger.
replyWhy is Yemen, Iran, Sudan and Ukraine still mapped then?
Were those cities bombed out?
replyNone of them are cities, but yes, many cities in those countries are rubble.
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